Re: Good distro for a 60 year old man?

He was born here. but there was an illegal alien raid on his uncles railroad, and he answered the cops in a foreign language when they spoke to him in it.

And we be hispanic for the record not canadian

LOL....that's a funny story though. That's something my dad would have done if he spoke a different language. We're part native-Canadian, and it really showed on my dad, but he actually looked more like a Pakistan person. Immigration would have been all over him if spoke non-english.--If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

My dad's laptops's hard drive may be failing, its about 3 or 4 years old has sata 2. Its not the best laptop but its still plenty more than enough for him and it would cost about $400 to get a new laptop that is as good as his current one.

All he does is brows the web and occasionally youtube on it. I'm thinking mint 14 but want to get some input on that and the new drive size for him. I'd do windows but eh it costs money and all he needs is a web browser which linux can do fine.

I have my 85 year old dad and 80 year old mom using Ubuntu on their laptop and desktop with no issues at all - they both were long time window users.

I moved them to Linux after the last time I had to clean their machines...--Nothin' left to do but smile smile smile

Whaaaa... when was that? I don't remember any time when Canadians weren't welcomed here. And visa versa.--There are some nasty rumors going around about academics within the program that I hope are nothing more than rumors. It affected our play yesterday in a loss to Pitt. Completely listless.

I don't think age really has much to do with the selection of a distro other than if someone is really slowing down mentally and then even Windows would be a real problem.

I never used a computer until I was in my late 40's. I started using Linux at age 50. My first Distro? Debian's Woody release when it was in testing. It took me three tries to get a working install because I didn't understand all the terminology about hard drives--a Woody install required a lot of knowledge--but I guessed/learned my way through after a few mistakes and a lot of research. It taught me a lot that I would never have learned using Windows or any installer that was less challenging.

I'll be forever greatful that I started where I did. The learning curve was steep, but I enjoyed ever minute of it. I still use Debian today. I've tried a few other distros but Debian has been my computing home since the first successful install.--"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent a mere number.... socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."